Subject: Re: Performance of SCSI writing.
To: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.oscs.montana.edu>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 06/28/1997 12:11:13
On June 28, you wrote:
>   The slowdown on the pmax occurs because of the coincidence of the console
> font data showing up in memory where it does and the font data containing
> a number of words containing 1.  Adding or removing data between bdevsw[]
> and the font data will change the slowdown.  It occurs in groups of 4 words
> because the size of the data segment generated by gcc is rounded up to 16
> bytes.

  My *god* that's obscure.  I am impressed.


                   -Dave McGuire
                    mcguire@neurotica.com